BAREILLY: In a first, free Wi-Fi facility will be made available at the Samajwadi Party’s mega rally in the government inter college grounds here on December 7. Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav will address this gathering, his second after one in Ghazipur last month. The service will facilitate around two lakh people speculated to attend the rally, said office bearers.

Visitors will be able to access the Wi-Fi service from 10 in the morning, when the rally is scheduled to begin, till the meeting gets over. SP members also said that the event will be streamed live for viewers across the state and elsewhere to witness.

Speaking to TOI, former Rajya Sabha MP and SP’s district president Veerpal Singh Yadav said, “We are in the process of giving final touches to the arrangements for the mega rally. Top leaders and office bearers from our Lucknow office will be camping in the city from Tuesday onwards.”

The entire city is dotted with SP flags and banners put up by local cadres ahead of Mulayam’s visit here after a gap of two years. Uncertainty, however, looms large over CM Akhilesh Yadav’s attendance in the rally. He had skipped the inauguration of ‘Dial 100’ scheme here on November 19.

According to sources in the party office here, SP state president Shivpal Yadav will be here on Tuesday. Ahead of the 2016 assembly polls, this rally will gain importance as a test of cohesion between SP leaders and an attempt to mend the fissures between CM Akhilesh and Shivpal.

Candidates, in the meanwhile, have been organising public meetings and motivating people to attend the grand event. Each candidate from Bareilly region, including neighbouring districts such as Shahjahanpur, Badaun, Rampur and Pilibhit, have been given a crowd turnout target of 10,000 to 20,000 people, depending upon a constituency’s proximity from the venue.